2012.08.20+First+days

Agenda:

1) Schedule library times with Judy and decide on curriculum for internet safety My notes from TechKnow say: We LOVE the free curriculum from: http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/curriculum/k-5 The lessons we thought most applicable for us:
 * 1) Digital Citizenship - Unit 1, Digital Life - //**Rings of Responsibility (lesson has 5 parts)**//
 * 2) Digital Citizenship - Unit 4, Respecting Creative Work - //**Whose Is It Anyway? (lesson has 5 parts)**//
 * 3) Research and Information Literacy - Unit 1, Searching - //**Choosing a Search Site (lesson has 4 parts)**//
 * 4) Research and Information Literacy - Unit 2, Research and Evaluation - //**Rating Websites (lesson has 4 parts)**//
 * 5) Research and Information Literacy - Unit 2, Research and Evaluation - //**Right Sites (lesson has 4 parts)**//

We booked Friday August 24th and the following week (August 27th-31st). We need to look through the material and cut it down to 3 lessons of about 50 minutes each.


 * //2.) Talk to Laura about first 3 days. Figure out team building. Who will do what activities? Do we want to do Friday Math rotations?//**

Wednesday: 11:45 - 12:30 meet in gathering space for 4th grade welcome, and expectations, practice dismissal, touch on AUP Thursday: 8:15 - 9:15 Teambuilding (Kelley - 2 True/ 1False, Gina - Lean on Me, Cheryl - Birthday line-up, Laura - ?) Friday: 8:20 - 9:30 Every 15 minutes (Cheryl - weird puzzles, Kelley - iPads, Gina - Bingo, Laura - logic puzzles)


 * //3.) Have Kelley show us the Daily 5/CAFE stuff and organize binder (Gina and Kelley have binder materials)//**

Ground rules: butt on line, no phones or iPods, can use iPad or eReader for reading only, and for everything else use good judgment. If you are doing something that
 * //4.) Figure out car circle schedule/ ground rules//**

First 3 days: all of us Cheryl: August and September, March Kelley: October, February Gina: November, January Laura: December, April

May/ June split into two week cycles of duties


 * //5.) Talk about Monday snacks//**

No snacks


 * //6.) Finalize Gina's list of important dates for parents/ room parent tasks//**